Sounds to me that he has a firewall program on or Windows or whatever OS he is running is blocking the UDP access it needs. Go to Circuit City or Best Buy and get a router. This will solve all your problems. Or find a way to express the Ports be open to incoming/outgoing calls in your firewall, OS, or whatever.
Maybe it's a hardware issue - it sounds like you have only 1 NIC, which is connected via crossover cable to your gaming PC. Your DSL modem is connected to your server computer via USB. Maybe HLDS is getting tweaked by being bound to the USB adapter (just a shot in the dark, really) I'm not sure how HLDS works on being hosted on the computer that may be running some kind of internet connection sharing program. As stated previously, usually HLDS (or any type of server for that matter) goes on a computer being on the private lan, with the appropriate ports forwarded to it. Have you considered buying a dedicated router (or is that not an option for you?) - that would go a long way towards fixing your problem I think. Then your friends would connect to your external IP, and you would connect to your internal IP (bypassing the router completely, save for steam auth'ing). Rick Payton, IT Support Morikawa & Associates (808) 572-1745 http://www.mai-hawaii.com/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 7:47 AM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Can connect as lan, but not internet. PLS HELP! Ok. I'm not sure what you mean by class c. my external address is usually something along the lines of 172.214.55.136 I have read somewhere that when you set up a server on a lan, you connect via the lan ip and everyone else (over the net) connects via the external ip address. For ppl to connect with the external one, you just forward all ports and they should be able to join. The server is running on the machine that is directly connected to the net so I hadn't bothered with port forwarding, as it should behave like any normal server (i.e. not on a lan as well). But, I tried it just in case. It told me it could not bind the udp ports. I have tried to set the external ip in the command line but it still gives me the "lan game" error. My lan ips are: Server 192.168.0.1 My Machine 192.168.0.2 My Internet IP is always 172.???.???.??? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
